The Other Side of the Wire: Volume 1 - With the German XIV Reserve Corps on the Somme, September 1914-June 1916 Whitehead Ralph J.

The Other Side of the Wire brings to life a period long forgotten in the decades that have passed since the Great War ended in 1918. Most simply ignore the nearly two years of warfare that preceded the momentous offensive. Until recently, most books written on the Battle of the Somme concentrated almost exclusively on the British effort with only a brief mention of the period before 1 July 1916 and the German experience in the battle.

The book covers the early fighting around villages that took on such notoriety in 1916: Serre, Beaumont-Hamel, Thiepval, Ovillers, La Boisselle and Fricourt among By focusing on one of the principal German formations involved in the Somme fighting, author Ralph Whitehead brings to life this little-known period, from the initial German advance on the Somme in September 1914 through the formation of the front that became so well known almost two years later.